http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660I was wondering what if the properties are set to lazy initialization in the proxy, as are the collections? Then the partial query would only load the given properties in the select clause. I guess your steps are more reliable indeed http://ayende.com/2742/lazy-property-loading-in-nhibernate#comment3http://ayende.com/2742/lazy-property-loading-in-nhibernate#comment3Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:46:13 GMTMore senseless blathering: http://blog.eleutian.com/2007/08/26/OptimizingNHibernatePt3.aspx http://ayende.com/2742/lazy-property-loading-in-nhibernate#comment2http://ayende.com/2742/lazy-property-loading-in-nhibernate#comment2Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:38:30 GMTYup, that´s exactly how NPersist does it! :-) /Mats http://ayende.com/2742/lazy-property-loading-in-nhibernate#comment1http://ayende.com/2742/lazy-property-loading-in-nhibernate#comment1Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:06:52 GMT